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Software process improvement has become a necessity for software intensive businesses for their competitive performance. However, managing change and revitalizing the organization for software process improvement is a considerable challenge. This chapter presents an analysis of the factors that enable and inhibit software process improvement, and presents a model and recommendations for successfully bringing about organizational change for software process improvement.
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Moitra, D. (2005). Managing Organizational Change for Software Process Improvement. In: Acuña, S.T., Juristo, N. (eds) Software Process Modeling. International Series in Software Engineering, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-24262-7_7
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